Timothy Dyck

Most corporate handheld applications run on the server, using a design in which server-side code generates client-side interfaces using HTML or Wireless Markup Language. ThinAirApps Identicon DB wireless development software, which began shipping for Palm devices this month, flips that architecture around by making it easier for developers to write native PDA applications that take […]

At last months tech-ed conference, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of the next release of its SQL Server database, code-named Yukon. Its very early in the development process (Yukon wont ship until 2003, eons from now), but Microsofts key directions are becoming clear: a long-term move toward native XML support in the database (including […]

eWeek Labs first look at code reveals that the biggest feature change in Microsoft Corp.s Visual Studio .Net Beta 2 release is its support for graphical mobile application development. Visual Studio .Net is the first Microsoft tool to tackle the problem of developing mobile applications, an area where Microsofts development strategy had been lagging. Using […]

The HitBox Commerce service that WebSideStory launched this month correlates Web site use with purchasing activity so that store managers can see which Web site paths turn window shoppers into paying customers. Prices start at $1,500 per month for up to 10,000 tracked purchases. To use the service, IT staffers integrate a small amount of […]

Along with some fine-tuning around the edges, IBMs DB2 Universal Database 7.2 unfurls several areas of new or enhanced connectivity that make it easier to connect DB2 to other enterprise data sources. In particular, DB2s newfound ability to send and receive messages with IBM MQSeries, the widely used message queuing server, will be interesting to […]

In the database world, as in many other areas of IT, companies are searching for ways to do more with less. This challenge is being approached from different directions by the three top database vendors. Oracle Corp. is focusing on clustering and adding nontraditional database services such as file serving to its database to lower […]

In most cases, a public benchmark is really nothing more than a transaction race where bragging rights and platform pride are the prizes. But every so often, a revolutionary performance breakthrough comes to the forefront during a test. In the case of eWeek Labs Web server benchmark, Red Hat Inc.s Tux 2.0 Web server running […]

HARDWARE DISPOSAL Ill bet most of us have nasty little secrets buried in forgotten corners of our buildings—rooms full of hardware junk just like this one at eWeeks Boston-area lab. The IT industry has to take a much greater collective responsibility for its trash. Its not just filling up landfills; it can also be quite […]

WEB DEVELOPMENT The updated version of IBMs free Web Services Toolkit, released last month, provides tools for Web developers to experiment with the latest Web and XML application development technologies. IBM (along with Microsoft) is a big backer of XML Simple Object Access Protocol remote procedure call technology, and SOAP is central to Web Services […]

SECURITY A product thats just a few months old is providing a way of taking the long view in network security. Niksun Inc. (www.niksun.com) takes a new approach with its Net- Detector by building a network traffic analyzer with intrusion-detection system features. The rack-mountable NetDetectors key difference is that it is designed to be purchased […]

Thanks but no thanks. Thats what I say to those anonymous crackers who had decided to “help” out by releasing the Cheese Worm last month. Cheese is certainly a “c00l” hack, but that definitely doesnt make it acceptable or responsible behavior. Visions of bots floating around in the ether waging mighty, but invisible, battles belong […]

Earlier this month at the Tenth International World Wide Web Conference in Hong Kong, XML took its biggest step forward since the document format was first standardized in February 1998. At the conference, the World Wide Web Consortium released XML Schema as a W3C Recommendation, finalizing efforts that started in 1998 to define a standard […]